Nuclear Bomb Design on BKK Computers

[JayT]

Nuclear Ring Reportedly Had Advanced Design

 

By DAVID E. SANGER June 15, 2008

 

WASHINGTON â?? American and international investigators say that they have found the electronic blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon on computers that belonged to the nuclear smuggling network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist, but that they have not been able to determine whether they were sold to Iran or the smuggling ringâ??s other customers.

 

The plans appear to closely resemble a nuclear weapon that was built by Pakistan and first tested exactly a decade ago. But when confronted with the design by officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency last year, Pakistani officials insisted that Dr. Khan, who has been lobbying in recent months to be released from the loose house arrest that he has been under since 2004, did not have access to Pakistanâ??s weapons designs.

 

In interviews in Vienna, Islamabad and Washington over the past year, officials have said that the weapons design was far more sophisticated than the blueprints discovered in Libya in 2003, when Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi gave up his countryâ??s nuclear weapons program. Those blueprints were for a Chinese nuclear weapon that dated to the mid-1960s, and investigators found that Libya had obtained them from the Khan network.

 

But the latest design found on Khan network computers in Switzerland, [color:red]Bangkok[/color] and several other cities around the world is half the size and twice the power of the Chinese weapon, with far more modern electronics, the investigators say. The design is in electronic form, they said, making it easy to copy â?? and they have no idea how many copies of it are now in circulation.

 

Investigators said the evidence that the Khan network was trafficking in a tested, compact and efficient bomb design was particularly alarming, because if a country or group obtained the bomb design, the technological information would significantly shorten the time needed to build a weapon. Among the missiles that could carry the smaller weapon, according to some weapons experts, is the Iranian Shahab III, which is based on a North Korean design.

 

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[TheCorinthian]

Maybe but you would need a 1st world lab and about $100,000,000 to build it.

[Bangkoktraveler]

With today's technology, probably can be done for less then $10,000 plus the radiactive material.

Never under estimate the other side. Remember, the largest attack the world has ever seen, was a low budget attack.

[TheCorinthian]

With today's technology, probably can be done for less then $10,000 plus the radiactive material.

Never under estimate the other side. Remember, the largest attack the world has ever seen, was a low budget attack.

 

 

Yes but it was also low tech. This stuff is WAY different.

[Bangkoktraveler]

If the research and development is done, all that is left is the manufacturing process.

[Flashermac]

Yep, just go buy what you ned at Chatuchak Market.

 

 

[TheCorinthian]

Exactly. And that is ultra complicated. You are talking about .00001 micron tolerances, floating lathes, water jet cutters, specific hard to make alloys, and extremely controlled environments so you dont just die from the effects of building the thing.

 

And if you are talking 6th gen plans, then it is far more complex than that. This is true rocket science.

 

A group that may be able to replicate a Ferrari could still not build an atom bomb.

[Torneyboy]

 

But the latest design found on Khan network computers in Switzerland, Bangkok and several other cities around the world is half the size and twice the power of the Chinese weapon, with far more modern electronics, the investigators say. The design is in electronic form, they said, making it easy to copy â?? and they have no idea how many copies of it are now in circulation.

 

 

Cause for alarm ..

[JayT]

Yep, just go buy what you ned at Chatuchak Market.

 

I noticed that they have some pretty explosive chilli peps over there

[Bangkoktraveler]

If this device is 'impossible' to build, then this is not news. But if this is not an impossible to build device, then it is something to worry. Being research, development and testing has already been done, the only thing left is to build it. It seems the blueprints can be printed out so a person could have the parts contracted out piece by piece. The price of ten pieces is not much more then the price of one piece (tooling cost) so ten bombs might be built instead of one. If somebody is clever, they will build a bunch of these minus the nuclear element(s).